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G3User - Mar 8, 2007 - 10:41 am

Hi! I am almost done with my website, which as of now I intend to upload to Dreamhost for hosting. I like the support they've given me so far, they've been great about answering my questions.

I want to set up my website, though, so that users can download music, video and possibly a pdf document via a PayPal payment. They would make a payment, then download the file.

Dreamhost has a script called FilesForever, but the way that works is that users make a credit card payment, then can download the file as many times as they want forever. I don't think people will want to send their credit card information over the internet just to download a 99. cent song, or 2 dollar video, do you? I think they would be more comfortable using Paypal.

I am thinking more of an iTunes kind of setup, where you make a PayPal payment and then download the tune.

I know we could do it in a way that once they make the payment, i send them a link... but that isn't great, because I would need to send out a link for every .99 cent payment, and people aren't going to want to wait to access their music. They want it now.

So I want to set things up so that once they have made the PayPal payment, an email link is automatically sent to them, and that link opens up in a download page, like I have done on the internet, with demo songs, for example.

Can you help me do this?

Thanks so much!

bobw - Mar 8, 2007 - 12:08 pm

Hi Christopher

The best thing would be to read through this PayPal page for payment info, check the 'Buy Now Button';


http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr...rchant-outside
If you don't see exactly what you want to do, Contact Sales:
Call (866) 837-1863.

bobw
http://www.macosx.com

G3User - Mar 8, 2007 - 6:25 pm

Thanks. I contacted Paypal, and verified how to use the BUy It Now button. The instructions include copying the HTML for this feature into my website though. Since i use iWeb to create my website, will this mean I need to create a page in RapidWeaver or Dreamweaver? I don't think iWeb could do this. I have iWeb enhancer though, maybe i can use this to copy in the HTML and create this page? Does iWeb Enhancer allow you to do this? Thanks so much.

bobw - Mar 9, 2007 - 7:55 am

Christopher

I can't help with the HTML.
Post a separate question about that, or post in our forums for maybe a quicker answer from someone.

bobw

G3User - Mar 10, 2007 - 10:55 am

Thank you for what you did do. I will close this and open another ticket.